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Religion Quotes



"India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not so much a religion as a great diversified and yet subtly unified mass of spiritual thought, realization and aspiration."


"I'd make a terrible practitioner of any religion in any formal setting."



"I'm not a big fan of religion for that reason. But I am a true believer in God, and I have great faith, and I think that a spiritual connection with something is a really important part of our experience. That doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the church."


"My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion."


"My philosophy is to do the best you can for somebody. Help. It's not just what do you for yourself. It's how you treat people decently. The golden rule. There isn't big anything better than the golden rule. It's in every major religion in one language or another."


"I found enormous opposition to my religion. It's like if you want to strengthen your biceps, you lift heavy weight, as heavy as you can handle, and work your muscles against resistance until it grows strong. I had to do that with my religion."



"I have my own religion. I'm sort of one-quarter Baptist, one-quarter Catholic, one-quarter Jewish."


"So long as the New Testament served to decipher the Old, it was taken as an absolute norm."


"Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you've got to help pay for piping. And the Piper!"



"The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race."


"Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people."



"And finally, it was Deuteronomy that brought about the historical result of Josiah's reformation."


"Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion."



"Religion has convinced us that there's something else entirely other than concerns about suffering. There's concerns about what God wants, there's concerns about what's going to happen in the afterlife."


"The doorbells of Heaven were designed for the prayers of the poor."


"I don't think religious groups should be allowed to apply for federal funds to start new ministries they have not been doing before the funding was available."


"The problem with liberal Protestantism in America is not that it has not been orthodox enough, but that it has lost a lot of religious substance."


"Headship is the divine calling of a husband to take primary responsibility for Christ-like, servant leadership, protection, and provision in the home."


"If supernatural life in God's paradise is more important than natural life on earth, then the day you received Jesus Christ is more important than the day you were naturally born. Jon 3:6"


"The dissolution of the nation destroys the national religion, and dethrones the national deity."


"For us to think we can enjoy, understand and practice the Christian religion with just Matthew to Revelation is foolishness."


"The messengers of Jesus will be hated to the end of time. They will be blamed for all the division which rend cities and homes. Jesus and his disciples will be condemned on all sides for undermining family life, and for leading the nation astray; they will be called crazy fanatics and disturbers of the peace. The disciples will be sorely tempted to desert their Lord. But the end is also near, and they must hold on and persevere until it comes. Only he will be blessed who remains loyal to Jesus and his word until the end."



"You cannot have a moral holiday and remain moral, nor can you have a spiritual holiday and remain spiritual. God wants you to be entirely his, and this means that you have to watch to keep yourself fit. It takes a tremendous amount of time. Some of us expect to "clear the numberless ascensions* in about two minutes."


"To understand Jesus Christ, you must know the Language of Heaven."



"I admire the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and loving kindness and compassion."


"Forgiveness is not a one-time thing that happened the day you received Christ. It is an everyday thing, for the rest of your life."


"One of the misperceptions that exists in the Muslim world, which needs to be fixed, is the perception that Muslims in America are - are - are living in - in very, very, very bad circumstances. They cannot practice religion freely. It is not the truth at all. The fact is, we are practicing. We fast, we pray, we do our prayers."


"Christianity is not for seasonal use, it is for daily use. Make the word of God your daily Language."


"When you become a Christian, you are not on earth to fight for Jesus; God needed only one battle to redeem the souls of humanity. It was the cross."



"The essence of gospel-humility is not thinking more of myself or thinking less of myself, it is thinking of myself less."



"One great effect of prayer is that it enables the soul to command the body. By obedience I make my body submissive to my soul but prayer puts my soul in command of my body."



"Religion obviously played a role in this book and the previous book, too."


"For if the honour paid to Him is shared by others, He altogether ceases to be worshipped, since His religion requires us to believe that He is the one and only God."


"Religion did not exist for the saving of souls but for the preservation and welfare of society, and in all that was necessary to this end every man had to take his part, or break with the domestic and political community to which he belonged."


"Only in christanity that people that fall remain on the ground. When boxers are knocked down they refuse to remain on the ground or to accept a knock out. Even when they are bleeding with swollen faces, they still get up to fight but in Christianity even a push, not even a blow, Boxers gets up, wrestlers jumps up, Christians lie down.Do you know why? They do not fight a good fight, they expect to lose before they enter the ring. Every good fighter is an enduring person, they do excercise and training, they learn the act of endurance. You can't be a good Christian without an amour which is the word of God."


"The mysterious, invisible authority of the divine child over human hearts is more solidly grounded then the visible and resplendent power of earthly rulers. Ultimately all authority on earth must serve only the authority of Jesus Christ over humankind."


"If you don't read the Holy Bible, you don't stand a chance with the antichrist."
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